Letter: Our pinyon and juniper forests are critical

In a recent interview, Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Pendley claims that the BLM is justified in the large-scale mechanical removal of pinyon-juniper forests because they are not good for habitat, wildlife or people, and that these forests have encroached onto rangelands that were once dominated by sagebrush.In reality, pinyon pine and juniper forests are native to the Colorado plateau and provide critical habitat for native wildlife. He claims that only sagebrush “gree